my roomate decided that he wanted to go home for most of the summer this past may. he was in his first semester of graduate school &was studying to get his MBA. he worked at the local icecream shop across the street &things there werent so rosey from what he was sayin. the owners were pissing him off and he hated his job which was his main p.t. job. He had quit his f.t. job in the financial world las december& was making around 34k with 2 jobs.
One night at dinner he told me he was thinking he was goin to go home for most of the summer. he told me his sistr was goin off to college & it be the last time to reallu spend time with her. i told him that he was running away from his problems. i own my own place and he pays me. we agreed (verbally) to have one payment w/ utilities inc. his stuff stayed in his room while he went home and he came home last weekend. i believe he needs to pay up for the months he missed. i was nice enough 2 drop his rent when he went back2 school
2007-08-26 17:23:15 · 5 answers · asked by shorty 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
If he moves out with your permission, then he wouldn't owe you rent. He left his things there and so owes rent because he is taking up the space. His problems with his job and sister are his problems. If he doesn't pay you, ask him to move out and get a more responsible person to live there and help out. You should have discussed this with him before he left and told him to either pay rent or take all of his stuff. You aren't his parents and you aren't responsible for him. He needs to step up and pay you. Stop being so nice. It's a business. And stop dropping the rent. . .I hope he appreciates you.
2007-08-26 17:39:40 · answer #1 · answered by towanda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This really should've been discussed before he left. If he wanted to not have to pay you, then he should've made arrangements to move his stuff out. (He might've paid you a nomimal fee to store his stuff in the garage or something while he was gone.)
I would certainly charge him the rent, because he left his stuff in your space making it impossible for you to rent it to anyone else. However, I would not charge him utilities, because he wasn't there to use any of them. (Be sure you point out that you're cutting him a break there -- frankly, I think you'd be within your rights to make him pay utilities, if that was part of your original agreement.)
Keep in mind for the future that you really need to manage these things BEFORE they become a problem. If he says he's leaving for the summer, you need to ask him what he plans to do about the room and remind him he's on the hook for the rent if he just meanders off and leaves his stuff there so you can't rent it out to anyone else.
Also, I usually recommend that you charge a flat fee (and pad a little for the included utilities.) That way you don't get into bickering over the details of utility bills and there's no chasing someone down after they've already moved for the last month's utility payments.
2007-08-26 17:38:02 · answer #2 · answered by ISOintelligentlife 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything in writing prevails and if you still had his stuff at least storage costs could be claimed. Try small claims court if there was nothing in writing. Write down what you remember so you have some notes to refer back to and give him an invoice you have no reason to take him to small claims court if he doesn't even know what he owes so put it in writing now!
2007-08-30 14:37:08 · answer #3 · answered by helprhome 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes he does owe you.... his stuff was there and you could have rented the room but he still had it "occupied"
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2007-08-29 05:06:18 · answer #5 · answered by maya j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋